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This video by TV360 offers you expert advice on using home remedies such as warm milk to fall asleep.

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How Warm Milk Helps You Sleep Mary Kate: Hi I’m Mary Kate from Nashville and I would like to know, is a glass of warm milk a good home remedy for insomnia and if not what is? Female: Well in fact Mary Kate, warm milk has been a treatment for insomnia for many, many years. It’s well known to help people fall asleep, that’s because it has a substance called tryptophan in it and tryptophan is a sleep inducer. Other things that have tryptophan are turkey, other things that can help that our home remedies are a warm bath, some limiting your caffeine intake before you go to bed, not exercising before you go to bed, basic things like that and there’s sleep hygiene rules that you should also follow, keeping the same bed time and wake time everyday and not getting out of your bed you can’t fall asleep an d going to a different environment. But warm milk definitely does work.